THE SAGACIOUS MONKEY AND THE BOAR.Long, long ago, there lived in the province of Shinshin in
Japan, a traveling monkey-man, who earned his living by taking
round a monkey and showing off the animal's tricks.
One evening the man came home in a very bad temper and told his
wife to send for the butcher the next morning.
The wife was very bewildered and asked her husband:
"Why do you wish me to send for the butcher?"
"It's no use taking that monkey round any longer, he's too old
and forgets his tricks. I beat him with my stick all I know how,
but he won't dance properly. I must now sell him to the butcher and
make what money out of him I can. There is nothing else to be
done."
The woman felt very sorry for the poor little animal, and
pleaded for her husband to spare the monkey, bu
